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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more
Bird Sense: What it's Like to be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science.
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journ ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (And Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs ...Show more
The Wonderful Mr Willughby - The First True Ornithologist by Tim Birkhead
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology.Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Trav ...Show more
What it's Like to Be a Bird (HB) by Tim Birkhead
30.00 NZD
Category: Children's non-fiction
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Or to live high in the tree tops? Or perhaps you've wondered what birds do when no one is looking? Birds have some of the most extraordinary and peculiar behaviours on the planet. Ravens love PLAYING games. In winter, they sledge down snow-covered ro ...Show more
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